St. Joseph project gallery
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What we did
- Shingle roof replaced
- Vinyl siding replaced on the front, back and both sides
- Finished exterior photographed in early spring
At a glance
- Roof
- Gable roof with an open valley
- Colors
- Owens Corning Duration, Peppercorn, sage siding
- Walls
- Sage green vinyl lap
- Setting
- Walkout lot, early spring
What you are looking at
The job file covers the roof plus all four sides of the house, and the photos walk around it: the back with its wood deck and stairs, both gable ends and a corner where the lower level steps out of the hill.
The siding is a sage green lap profile. White corner posts, white window trim and white louvered shutters on the gable end windows break it up, and the white gutters and downspouts disappear against the trim. On the lower level, the siding stops above a textured block foundation.
The rooftop photo looks straight down an open valley, where two roof planes meet over a strip of metal. Water from both slopes runs into that channel, so the shingles on each side are trimmed back to leave it open and clear.
The shingles themselves are a gray blend with some warm tan flecks. From the yard they read as a light charcoal that suits the green walls.
The photos were taken on a bright day in early April, before the grass turned green, with bare trees around the lot and open sky behind the house.
Doing the roof and siding in the same job means the roof edges, the drip edge and the top course of siding all get fitted together once, instead of one trade working around the other's finished work a year later.
The Peppercorn color is the part you see; the part you don't is SureNail, a woven fabric strip across the nailing zone that Owens Corning rates for winds up to 130 mph on four nails per shingle. On a St. Joseph roof, a shingle that stays nailed flat in summer wind is also one that keeps drifting snow and meltwater from getting under the edges.
